Changelog Agent Skill

changelog skill

Maintain CHANGELOG.md as part of every user-facing Wassette change. Prefer a

small, accurate entry over a commit-log summary.

Workflow

• Read AGENTS.md and the [Unreleased] section of CHANGELOG.md.
• Inspect only the change being documented:
• Use the user-provided diff, pull request, or commit range when available.
• On a pull request branch, compare against the merge base with main.
• Otherwise inspect staged and unstaged changes without including unrelated

worktree changes.

• Decide whether users, operators, component authors, or downstream

integrators can observe the change.

• Update the existing [Unreleased] section, deduplicating against existing

entries.

• Review the final diff for placement, duplication, formatting, and scope.

What needs an entry

Add an entry for:

• New features, commands, options, APIs, integrations, examples, and supported

platforms.

• Behavior changes, defaults, compatibility changes, and breaking changes.
• Deprecations and removals.
• User-visible bug fixes.
• Security fixes. Avoid unnecessary disclosure before coordinated release.
• Significant installation, deployment, component-publishing, or operational

changes.

An entry is usually unnecessary for tests, internal refactors, formatting,

comments, routine dependency maintenance, and CI-only changes that do not alter

the delivered product. For such pull requests, use the skip-changelog label.

When relevance is genuinely ambiguous, ask rather than guessing.

Categories

Use these Keep a Changelog headings in this order:

• Added
• Changed
• Deprecated
• Removed
• Fixed
• Security

Reuse an existing heading when possible. Add a missing heading only when the

entry needs it.

Writing entries

• Write one concise bullet describing the resulting user impact.
• Match the surrounding voice, punctuation, capitalization, and terminology.
• Mention breaking behavior explicitly with BREAKING CHANGE.
• Combine tightly related changes into one entry.
• Do not duplicate an existing [Unreleased] entry.
• Add a pull request link only when its number is known, using

(#N).

• Do not invent a pull request number or leave a placeholder.

Wassette release rules

• Edit only the current [Unreleased] section.
• Do not add a version or release date; release.yml owns that transition.
• Do not rewrite historical releases unless the user explicitly requests a

correction.

• Do not include routine dependency bumps unless they fix a user-visible issue,

change compatibility, or address a security advisory.

Validation checklist

• The entry is inside [Unreleased], before the first released version.
• The category matches the type of user impact.
• The wording is understandable without reading the implementation diff.
• Existing headings, blank lines, links, and historical releases are preserved.
• The diff contains no unrelated changelog edits.
• If no entry was needed, report that the pull request needs the

skip-changelog label.